The holiday celebrating this famous Irish figure is a lot older than St. Patrick's Day.

St Brigid was the feminist, peacemaker and environmentalist who went on to become the female patron saint of Ireland ...

Oral and folk tradition recounts that St. Brigid, whose feast day is celebrated in Ireland on Feb. 1, made a cross from rushes or reeds to explain Christianity to the faithful in much the same way ...

EWTN programs with an Irish flair can be viewed on demand. L to R, subjects include: St. Brigid, St. Patrick, the story of Knock, Father Willie Doyle and a heroic priest ministering in the Penal Law ...

Entering its second year of celebrations, the St. Brigid’s Day/Imbolc bank holiday aims to acknowledge and honour St. Brigid herself, and the central and unique role of women in today’s society, as ...

Through narrow, winding roads with overflowing hedgerows, Faughart appears virtually untouched through the centuries. I came to this ancient village a few months ago to visit St. Brigid’s Shrine.

Into Kildare, the Co Kildare Tourism Board, illuminated the Hill of Allen this evening, Friday, January 31, to celebrate the eve of St. Brigid’s Day. St. Brigid's home county of Kildare paid tribute ...

The Church and wider society need the “particular insights and witness of women”, the leader of the Irish Church has said. In his message for the Feast of St Brigid, Archbishop of Armagh Eamon Martin ...

Modern Irish history is a cautionary tale for Western nations that take the incessant attack on faith and freedoms lightly.

I heard them long before I saw them. I was making my way to St Brigid’s Well, a peaceful shrine beneath ancient oak trees in Kildare. But between the cawing of crows and the squelch of mud underfoot, ...